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In her third poetry collection, 2019 Pulitzer-finalist Jos Charles examines time and what it means to mourn — and how knowing that there is an "after" can teach us to embrace it.

Vuong's highly anticipated second poetry collection Time Is a Mother is out on Tuesday. In it, he builds a space for rumination on time with poems written in the aftermath of his mother's death.

Here are eight poems about my experience as a caregiver to my wife during her final days. I wrote eight poems in chronological order of the events that led to my wife's death, as I spent 77,000 hours ...

Giovanni’s first published work was the poetry collection Black Feelings, Black Talk in 1968, a book that heralded her a powerful figure in the burgeoning Black Arts movement of the 60s and 70s.

Joy Harjo. Leslie Silko’s witchery poem, “A Long Time Ago,” attributes evil in the Americas to a story that could not be turned back; it is a classic and will be reprinted in the forthcoming ...

The book looks at this endless passing of time, and considers how to live with it. In 2016, when first writing this poem, Charles had just moved to California after completing her MFA.

Charles's third collection — including the poem "a Year" — titled a Year & other poems is out Tuesday. The book looks at this endless passing of time, and considers how to live with it.